March 31, 2017

This panel will discuss many of the current issues that music licensing encounters in the expanding worldwide distribution of audio-visual and other product. Areas covered include the structure, negotiation and relevant considerations in a music license for pre-existing or original compositions, back end royalties, foreign country broadcast issues and collection society reciprocal agreements and practices, the effect of Pan European licensing Hubs on the process and more-In short, and how U.S. agreements must take into account the vagaries of the foreign marketplace.